Jim Garrison(1921-1992)
- Actor
- Writer
Jim Garrison is so far the only one to hold a trial in relation to the
murder of USA president John F. Kennedy in 1963. Jim Garrison was at
the time a very skilled district attorney of New Orleans. Three years
later, he has a conversation with a governor, which arose his suspicion
of the whole affair, mainly the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald could
hardly have been the lone assassin. Links from Oswald lead to offices
in New Orleans. Garrison's investigations ended with the trial against
Clay Shaw in 1967. Shaw was acquitted, but the evidence against him
presented by Jim Garrison trembled USA, and triggered a discussion
about the assassin of Kennedy which is still at its peak now, 30 years
later. The focus of Garrison's evidence was to prove there was a
conspiracy against JFK, and that the investigations conducted by The
Warren Commission were totally mistargeted. This Mr. Garrisson did to
the extreme. An investigation in 1979 found that "there may well have
been more than one assassin". Jim Garrison is now retired. He appears
very briefly in the film "JFK" (about his own investigations), as
leader of the official investigation team, Earl Warren. Kevin Costner plays
Jim Garrison in the Oscar Winner.